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Subject:	Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:13:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: > I suspect that if we all were paying the true costs of driving SUVs we • wouldn't > be driving quite as many of them. Getting from our system to one in which true > costs are actually paid (don't confuse the notion of true costs with just > heavily taxing gasoline, that's not the right way to do it) is non-trivial, > though. I'd like to hear more about the idea of true costs. What would be included in the true costs of automobile ownership? The cost of maintaining roads? The cost of pollution? -- Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"

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		Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
(...) true (...) Those and more. Cost of building the roads. True insurance costs (one thing which seems a bit wrong to me is that when the other guy is at fault, insurance covers the cost of the damage, but doesn't do anything to cover the cost of (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: What age does buying lego become embarrassing?
(...) Well, you're right. However I will say that I wish we hadn't gotten our Durango, it's a gashog, and I'd rather have spent the extra gas money on something else. Getting Josette to drive the Stratus (which get 35 mpg driven correctly) is a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)

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